By April 16, all trucks with Russian and Belarusian license plates must leave the EU.
For the period from April 9 to the morning of April 10 Border guards did not allow 152 trucks with Russian and Belarusian license plates into Latvia, Interfax reports. Carriers from Russia and Belarus are prohibited from crossing the EU border due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Yes, the European Union has banned the import and transit of new goods by road from Russia and Belarus to the EU since 9 April. At the same time, all trucks from both countries must leave the territory of the European Union by April 16.
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It will be recalled that this week the European Union finally approved n package of sanctions against Russia because of the war against Ukraine. Sanctions include a transport blockade.
It should be added that Ukraine has long lived in the realities of a real transport blockade. About it for ZN.UA in the material “ Transport blockade of Russia. Light ” the founder of the project “Railway without corruption” Vladimir Datsenko writes.
From February 24 one of Russia's blows was to block Ukraine's transport as the most effective blow to the economy. Russian ships blocked the waters of Ukrainian ports. Transit traffic was completely stopped. Dozens of road and rail crossings to the EU remain the only corridor in the world for Ukraine. Their capacity is not unlimited.
It should also be recalled that the Baltic States and Poland have agreed in advance to completely block road transport with the aggressor country and Belarus, and not only for Russian and Belarusian trucks.
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